Well I am very pleased with Remix OS. It's fast, reliable and verylightweight. It runs smoothly on a very old dual core desktop PC
My only problem with that is that my GPU (Radeon HD 3650) is overheating even in idle mode. Usually on windows the average temperature is 40-48 Celsius. But when I run Remix OS I hear too much noise from the GPU's fan which means that it is probably working at 100%.
I downloaded the CPUID Hardware Monitor from Play Store to measure the heat of the graphics card. It showed 68-70 Celsius which is a very high value. The temp stays in that high level no matter if I run an application, a game or if Remix OS stays idle on desktop screen.
I noticed that Remix OS doesn't even use the GPU because the utilization is always idle no matter which android application I use.But there was no problem at all games perfomance. They all run at a very good framerate. Probably Remix OS uses the CPU to render graphics.
But my main problem is that 78-70 Celsius is a very high temperature for this Graphics card. I like Remix OS a lot but I don't want to destroy my Graphics Card.
Is there any android application that I can use to cool down the GPU or ever disable it completely when I run Remix OS? Can I modify any configuration or boot file of Remix OS in order to disable the GPU?
Please help me if you can
Hmm... why not add some more cooling (or airflow) to GPU..
If you disable the 3650... by using kernel, it would still get power and heat up (also no picture...or do you have a onboard GPU ? )
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Hi all, running lite'ning rom 1.4 and just played order and chaos for 5 minutes and the phone became too hot to touch! Surely this shouldn't be right, i mean what the hell! Anyone else have this?
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Hi all, running lite'ning rom 1.4 and just played order and chaos for 5 minutes and the phone became too hot to touch! Surely this shouldn't be right, i mean what the hell! Anyone else have this?
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Actually yes,many people have this.It's the CPU overheating.Beware,it doesn't get hotter than other CPUs on the market,but heat disipation on the GS2 is minimal as the phone is so thin.
The only thing you can try is lowering the CPU clock to 1000Mhz or even 800Mhz when gaming.You can even boost your GPU to 400Mhz up from 267Mhz and don't overheat then.There will also be no performance hit as games run mainly on the GPU and two cores running at 1GHz are more than enough to handle the background.
I havent noticed the phone getting super hot as some people have noted. I do notice that it does get a lot hotter if its plugged in and charging while playing a game. Are you by chance charging while playing? If so, I'd try and play while not charging to see if it gets really hot still.
No this isnt while charging and it literally was 5 minutes of playing! How do I change the cpu and gpu speeds safetly?
it also depends on the game itself, many of them are just poorly programmed
to your question: setcpu is the app.
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Actually yes,many people have this.It's the CPU overheating.Beware,it doesn't get hotter than other CPUs on the market,but heat disipation on the GS2 is minimal as the phone is so thin.
The only thing you can try is lowering the CPU clock to 1000Mhz or even 800Mhz when gaming.You can even boost your GPU to 400Mhz up from 267Mhz and don't overheat then.There will also be no performance hit as games run mainly on the GPU and two cores running at 1GHz are more than enough to handle the background.
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I dont have an SGS2 yet but your statement has a total flaw, if games mainly use the GPU then there should be zero need to underclock the CPU.
EarlZ said:
I dont have an SGS2 yet but your statement has a total flaw, if games mainly use the GPU then there should be zero need to underclock the CPU.
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Have you ever seen anything running on the GPU ONLY?What I mean is that the GPU processes the graphics,which are important when playing a game.The CPU takes on other tasks,like opponent's AI(artificial intelligence),background and foreground code running and many other things.Sound maybe?All these things keep the CPU running at 100% for no reason.Lower the clock and voila!
Check first before you try to say I'm wrong next time.I don't usually say bullsh!t with such things.
This tablet is the same as the shield tablet how come it play games so badly if this can begin what’s the best custom rom and Kerman to play games on?
It overheats and throttles. The Tegra K1 in this tablet is not the same as the one in the Shield tablet. Same GPU, much different CPU. This one gets hotter. It really is too hot for a fanless tablet if you try to run it at full utilization for a long period of time, as a game will.
You can try underclocking the CPU. That will probably make it perform better for games because the GPU will run faster.
Actually it's not really "overheating" exactly. It has a temperature limit and once it hits that temp, it slows down the CPU and GPU to stay under that temp. It's a power limit. It uses too much power to run at full speed continuously for a long period of time in a tablet.
I'm using Slimrom with Fire Ice Kernel.
PUBG runs pretty well using gfxtools with low setting + 30fps.
But the game began to lag after 15min due to thermal throttle.
Will try the heatsink mod later and hopefully able to improve the performance...
Hi Guys. I play Black desert mobile on poco and when I have High graphics the gpu usage is around 30% while the cpu is 25%. Everything is ok, I can't say something about that. The point is that when I set the graphics to max settings, the usage of the graphics card goes between 35% - 60% and the processor is around 35%. For this reason, I would like you to tell me, how much the usage of gpu affects the overall 'health' and performance of the mobile, if it matters at all . What I mean is, whether it is 30% or 60%, will it affect the mobile in general? For example, I can use max graphics all the time without damaging the phone?
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Hi Guys. I play Black desert mobile on poco and when I have High graphics the gpu usage is around 30% while the cpu is 25%. Everything is ok, I can't say something about that. The point is that when I set the graphics to max settings, the usage of the graphics card goes between 35% - 60% and the processor is around 35%. For this reason, I would like you to tell me, how much the usage of gpu affects the overall 'health' and performance of the mobile, if it matters at all . What I mean is, whether it is 30% or 60%, will it affect the mobile in general? For example, I can use max graphics all the time without damaging the phone?
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I can use max graphics all the time without damaging the phone
I am always playing game max graphics
Poco have 845 and liquid cooler
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I can use max graphics all the time without damaging the phone
I am always playing game max graphics
Poco have 845 and liquid cooler
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Ok thank you. Are you sure though ? I mean have you checked if there is any difference between the battery power after and before playing for many hours ? Or with the performance in general? Because I can play sometimes many hours a day.
Rog phones are made for hardcore gaming. With its beefy thermal system, overclocked processor, hardcore tuning and so on. But to get sustained performance, the heat from the overclocked Snapdragon processor should be removed as they are generated.
The thermal paste applied on the processor can loose its properties over time and this situation put a lot of thermal stress to the SOC.
There are two way to solve this.
1) Replacing the thermal paste might work (If you go to service center Asus could brand the motherboard as faulty and might ask you hefty price to replace the board)
[What if, there is not a ton of heat generated from the soc in the first place?]
2) With the app, it is possible to reduce the heat generated in the first place.
when we run the apps which are not optimized the cpu, those apps tend to run the cpu at max clock speeds. This will heat up the processor much faster and eventually phone will shut down to cool down the cpu. If the cpu is too hot, the phone will undergo multiple shutdowns to keep the cpu temperature within working limits.
So with the app [root needed] which can be found here (Google drive), can monitor the temperature and dynamically sets the lower max frequencies to the cpu and gpu. By applying lower max clocks, (no need to worry as it wont interfere with the base clock speed or maintain a clock speed) the cpu would only need fraction of power to run. This will impact the performance upto 20-35%. But it may improve the battery life when gaming and solve the shutdown issue unless there is actual motherboard fault.
The app is only meant to be used with ASUS ROG 2 (SD 855+ variant). So dont try to use this app in any other device.
More details can be found in telegram group.
This issue is due to power management ic failure. When all cpu and gpu are running at max clock for few seconds, it draws ton of power from battery. Due to power management ic failure, when huge load of power is drawn the ic heats up at higher pace and ultimately a thermal safety measure is shutting down the device.
The above method may not work for all rooted users because there are more than one power management ICs are used inside our device. Anything could have caused this issue.
To prevent this issue:
Don't use the charging device when there is no cooling (use ceiling fan or table fan)
Don't use apps like gcam and camcorder when charging (those are resource intense)
Properly cooldown the device when playing high fps games.
Just sufficient amount of airflow is enough to convert heat from front display
any update on this issue
I was gaming on my OnePlus device and suddenly I notice that the CPU usage is 100% and the GPU usage stays below 15% always. You can check it in the image below. This happens even in OnePlus 11. Framedrops occur every once in a while due to this. What's the advantage of having a GPU so powerful if the games don't even utilise it? Does anyone know how to solve this without root?